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Dr. Blal Adem Esmail
University of Trento, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 02 June 2020 in One Ecosystem
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This paper analyses and compares a set of case studies on ecosystem services (ES) mapping and assessment with the purpose of formulating lessons learned and recommendations. Fourteen case studies were selected during the EU Horizon 2020 “Coordination and Support Action” ESMERALDA to represent different policy- and decision-making processes throughout the European Union, across a wide range of themes, biomes and scales. The analysis is based on a framework that addresses the key steps of an ES mapping and assessment process, namely policy questions, stakeholder identification and involvement, application of mapping and assessment methods, dissemination and communication and implementation. The analysis revealed that most case studies were policy-orientated or gave explicit suggestions for policy implementation in different contexts, including urban, rural and natural areas. Amongst the findings, the importance of starting stakeholder engagement early in the process was confirmed in order to generate interest and confidence in the project and to increase their willingness to cooperate. Concerning mapping and assessment methods, it was found that the integration of methods and results is essential for providing a comprehensive overview from different perspectives (e.g. social, economic). Finally, lessons learned for effective implementation of ES mapping and assessment results are presented and discussed. Graphical Abstarcat in Fig. 1.

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Davide Geneletti; Blal Adem Esmail; Chiara Cortinovis; Ildikó Arany; Mario Balzan; Pieter Van Beukering; Sabine Bicking; Paulo Borges; Bilyana Borisova; Steven Broekx; Benjamin Burkhard; Artur Gil; Ola Inghe; Leena Kopperoinen; Marion Kruse; Inge Liekens; Damian Lowicki; Andrzej Mizgajski; Sara Mulder; Stoyan Nedkov; Hannah Ostergard; Ana Picanço; Anda Ruskule; Fernando Santos-Martín; Ina M. Sieber; Johan Svensson; Dava Vačkářů; Kristina Veidemane. Ecosystem services mapping and assessment for policy- and decision-making: Lessons learned from a comparative analysis of European case studies. One Ecosystem 2020, 5, 1 .

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Davide Geneletti, Blal Adem Esmail, Chiara Cortinovis, Ildikó Arany, Mario Balzan, Pieter Van Beukering, Sabine Bicking, Paulo Borges, Bilyana Borisova, Steven Broekx, Benjamin Burkhard, Artur Gil, Ola Inghe, Leena Kopperoinen, Marion Kruse, Inge Liekens, Damian Lowicki, Andrzej Mizgajski, Sara Mulder, Stoyan Nedkov, Hannah Ostergard, Ana Picanço, Anda Ruskule, Fernando Santos-Martín, Ina M. Sieber, Johan Svensson, Dava Vačkářů, Kristina Veidemane. Ecosystem services mapping and assessment for policy- and decision-making: Lessons learned from a comparative analysis of European case studies. One Ecosystem. 2020; 5 ():1.

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Davide Geneletti; Blal Adem Esmail; Chiara Cortinovis; Ildikó Arany; Mario Balzan; Pieter Van Beukering; Sabine Bicking; Paulo Borges; Bilyana Borisova; Steven Broekx; Benjamin Burkhard; Artur Gil; Ola Inghe; Leena Kopperoinen; Marion Kruse; Inge Liekens; Damian Lowicki; Andrzej Mizgajski; Sara Mulder; Stoyan Nedkov; Hannah Ostergard; Ana Picanço; Anda Ruskule; Fernando Santos-Martín; Ina M. Sieber; Johan Svensson; Dava Vačkářů; Kristina Veidemane. 2020. "Ecosystem services mapping and assessment for policy- and decision-making: Lessons learned from a comparative analysis of European case studies." One Ecosystem 5, no. : 1.

Review
Published: 01 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Sustainability concerns and multiple socio-environmental pressures have necessitated a shift towards Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) systems. Viewing SUWM systems as sociotechnical, this paper departs from eight factors previously identified by transition research: Pressures, Context, Purposes, Actors, Instruments, Processes, Outputs, and Outcomes as a methodological framework for a structured review of 100 articles. The study seeks to analyze empirical cases of planning and implementing SUWM systems worldwide. A wide range of public actors—driven by social and environmental factors rather than by economic pressures—have initiated SUWM projects so as to locally fulfill defined social and environmental purposes. We provide evidence on the emergence of new actors, such as experts, users, and private developers, as well as on the diverse and innovative technical and societal instruments used to promote and implement SUWM systems. We also explore their contexts and institutional capacity to deal with pressures and to mobilize significant financial and human resources, which is in itself vital for the transition to SUWM. Planned or implemented SUWM outputs are divided into green (wet ponds, raingardens, and green roofs) and gray (rain barrels and porous pavements) measures. The outcomes of SUWM projects—in terms of societal and technical learning, and their institutional uptakes—are often implicit or lacking, which seemingly reduces the rate of desirable change.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Lina Suleiman. Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4481 .

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Blal Adem Esmail, Lina Suleiman. Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4481.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Lina Suleiman. 2020. "Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4481.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter presents an application of a novel operational approach for designing and assessing the impacts of Watershed Investments, developed in Chap. 3, to the Asmara and Toker Watershed case study. Assuming urban water security and rural poverty alleviation as two objectives for Watershed Investments, the case study application explores all the steps of the proposed approach. The results of the application include spatially explicit data that allow quantitatively assessing the performance of different Watershed Investment scenarios in terms of changes in a selected ecosystem service, answering to important planning and management questions. The application to the Asmara and Toker Watershed case study also highlights the challenges of addressing stakeholders’ concerns through relevant boundary work strategies.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Designing Watershed Investments for Asmara and the Toker Watershed. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 55 -75.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Designing Watershed Investments for Asmara and the Toker Watershed. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():55-75.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Designing Watershed Investments for Asmara and the Toker Watershed." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 55-75.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter summarizes the main messages of the book, as well as discusses the challenges for future research and practice to contribute to achieving water security and to implementing adaptive management in the urban water sector. Briefly, the first main message is that achieving urban water security through adaptive watershed planning and management, in Sub-Saharan Africa context, is a complex issue. Thus, an intuitive and flexible conceptual framework of the urban water sector from an ecosystem services perspective was proposed. It provides an overview of the main challenges and trends that characterize the sector, highlighting the specificities of the Sub-Saharan context, setting the background for further analysis. Second, if properly designed, Watershed Investments can become an important financial and governance mechanism to promote the implementation of adaptive watershed management to achieve urban water security. Third, a good case study application, even if only based on desk research, can serve to inspire stakeholder and possibly prepare the ground for real-life implementation of science-informed measures to promote urban water security alongside other social goals, coordinating ongoing watershed initiatives.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Conclusions. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 77 -80.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Conclusions. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():77-80.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Conclusions." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 77-80.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter presents a case study of urban water sector selected to apply a novel approach for designing and assessing impacts of Watershed Investments and more generally to explore the challenges of urban water security in a Sub-Saharan Africa context characterized by limited resources. The case is about the city of Asmara—the city capital of Eritrea—and its main water supply, the Toker watershed. The chapter illustrates the main socio-ecological challenges and opportunities for promoting adaptive management in the case study. In particular, to illustrate contextual and contingent factors characterizing the case study, three examples of ongoing soil and water conservation activities are presented. The chapter concludes with a focus on the Asmara Water Supply Department (AWSD), a key stakeholder in the selected case study. Specifically, the AWSD is analysed through an approach for conceptualizing water utilities as “learning organization” and assessing their institutional capacity.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Challenges for Water Security in Asmara, Eritrea. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 39 -54.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Challenges for Water Security in Asmara, Eritrea. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():39-54.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Challenges for Water Security in Asmara, Eritrea." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 39-54.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter provides an overview of the urban water sector, including both infrastructures and institutions, from an ecosystem services perspective. Hence, it proposes a conceptual framework intended to highlights the role of urban water sector in (i) linking ecosystem services supply and benefitting areas, (ii) bridging spatial scales ranging from the watershed to the household level and (iii) adopting ecosystem-based responses to water vulnerability. An example of application of the framework is shown using real-life projects of urban water infrastructures in Sub-Saharan Africa. The framework sets a useful background for further analysis of the urban water sector, as presented following chapter focusing on the watershed scale.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Linking Ecosystem Services to Urban Water Infrastructures and Institutions. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 7 -21.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Linking Ecosystem Services to Urban Water Infrastructures and Institutions. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():7-21.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Linking Ecosystem Services to Urban Water Infrastructures and Institutions." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 7-21.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter sets the context of the book by providing a brief account of the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the urban water sector. Watershed investments are here emphasized as a promising opportunity to effect large-scale transformative change promoting human wellbeing while conserving life-supporting ecosystems. The chapter concludes by illustrating the three specific objectives of the book.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Introduction. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 1 -6.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Introduction. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():1-6.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Introduction." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 1-6.

Chapter
Published: 09 May 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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This chapter focuses on Watershed Investments for securing water for cities. It starts with a brief account of the application of ecosystem services for decision-making and a theoretical background of boundary work. Accordingly, it proposes an operational approach developed for designing and assessing impact of watershed iInvestments to secure water for cities. The developed approach distinguishes between a “strategic” and a “technical” component. The strategic component identifies as key inputs of the process of Watershed Investment design and assessment, the definition of objectives and visioning of feasible and desirable scenarios by stakeholders. The technical component applies spatially explicit modelling to design Watershed Investments, hence to model the impacts on selected ecosystem services. The chapter concludes highlighting the potential of the approach to contribute to adaptive management in the urban water sector, by addressing the challenges of linking diverse stakeholders and knowledge system across management levels and institutional boundaries.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. An Operational Approach for Watershed Investments. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 23 -38.

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. An Operational Approach for Watershed Investments. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():23-38.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "An Operational Approach for Watershed Investments." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 23-38.

Book
Published: 01 January 2020 in Rethinking Map Literacy
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The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work. Specifically, the book’s goals are to (i) present a conceptual framework for the urban water sector from an ecosystem services perspective, highlighting the specificities of the Sub-Saharan context; (ii) develop an operational approach to designing and assessing the impacts of watershed investments, based on ecosystem services and boundary work; and (iii) test the approach through a case study in Asmara, Eritrea, and discuss the findings and lessons learned that can be applied in other contexts. Through a fully worked out case study, from identification of water challenges and opportunities to spatially explicit modelling, the book offers a sound and accessible, coverage of issues and proposed solutions to better operationalize ecosystem services, watershed investments and boundary work, to promote adaptive management, and achieve water security in the context of rapidly developing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book is an effective tool for capacity building of diverse stakeholders on the urban water sector, including water managers, local and national policy-makers as well as a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security. Rethinking Map Literacy 2020, 1 .

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Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti. Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security. Rethinking Map Literacy. 2020; ():1.

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Blal Adem Esmail; Davide Geneletti. 2020. "Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security." Rethinking Map Literacy , no. : 1.

Book
Published: 01 January 2020 in Land Degradation in India
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This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing what is still needed to improve planning practice; ii) illustrating how to develop ecosystem services indicators and information that can be used by urban planners to enhance plan design; iii) demonstrating the application of ES assessments to support urban planning processes through case studies; and iv) reflecting on criteria for addressing equity in urban planning through ecosystem service assessments, by exploring issues associated with the supply of, the access to and demand for ES by citizens. Through fully worked out case studies, from policy questions, to baseline analysis and indicators, and from option comparison to proposed solutions, the book offers readers detailed and accessible coverage of outstanding issues and proposed solutions to better integrate ES in city planning. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an updated perspective and overview on the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/decision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities. Land Degradation in India 2020, 1 .

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities. Land Degradation in India. 2020; ():1.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2020. "Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities." Land Degradation in India , no. : 1.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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This book focused on the relation between urban planning and ecosystem services (ES), acknowledging their potential role in addressing many challenges of todays’ cities. Planning decisions are one of the most influential factors determining the amount and spatial distribution of both ES supply and demand in cities. Hence, there is a need to integrate ES knowledge in planning processes, not only to measure and possibly reduce the negative impacts of planning decision on ES provision, but also to enable the proactive enhancement of ES through effective actions. To this overall aim, the book reviewed the state of the art of ES integration in current planning practices (Chaps. 2 and 3), presented an exemplary model for ES assessment specifically developed to support urban planning (Chap. 4), illustrated how ES information can be applied to support real-life planning decisions (Chap. 5), and discussed the design of ES assessments to analyse the equitable distribution of ES in cities (Chap. 6).

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Conclusions. Land Degradation in India 2019, 67 -72.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Conclusions. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():67-72.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Conclusions." Land Degradation in India , no. : 67-72.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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This chapter presents an application of ecosystem service assessments to support urban planning decisions. The case study concerns the regeneration of brownfields in the city of Trento (Italy). Potential re-greening interventions are prioritized according to their expected consequences on two illustrative, though relevant ecosystem services for the city: microclimate regulation and nature-based recreation. The performance of the different alternatives in relation to the two ecosystem services is assessed by comparing current conditions and future planning scenarios. The alternatives are compared based on the number of people that would benefit from the services provided by the re-greening interventions. Then, the results are combined through a multi-criteria analysis where criteria correspond to a set of defined planning objectives that may assume different weights according to different stakeholder perspectives. Multi-criteria analysis proved to be an effective tool to make the results of multiple ecosystem service assessments usable by decision-makers.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Applying Ecosystem Services to Support Planning Decisions: A Case Study. Land Degradation in India 2019, 43 -56.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Applying Ecosystem Services to Support Planning Decisions: A Case Study. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():43-56.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Applying Ecosystem Services to Support Planning Decisions: A Case Study." Land Degradation in India , no. : 43-56.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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Ecosystem services analysis has a great potential to support the inclusion of equity considerations in planning practice. This chapter discusses criteria for addressing equity in urban planning through ecosystem service assessments, by exploring issues associated to: (i) the supply of ecosystem services and its spatial distribution, (ii) the access to ecosystem services, and (iii) the demand of ecosystem services by different groups of beneficiaries. Criteria for analysing these three elements using the lens of equity are first presented and discussed against the current literature. Then, a case-study application is illustrated, and some lessons to guide future practice are put forward.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Towards Equity in the Distribution of Ecosystem Services in Cities. Land Degradation in India 2019, 57 -66.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Towards Equity in the Distribution of Ecosystem Services in Cities. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():57-66.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Towards Equity in the Distribution of Ecosystem Services in Cities." Land Degradation in India , no. : 57-66.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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The results suggest that there is in general good awareness in plans of EbA measures, and of their potential role in addressing climate change challenges. However, their treatment in climate adaptation plans at the urban level often lacks sufficient baseline information, as well as convincing implementation actions.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Climate Adaptation Plans. Land Degradation in India 2019, 21 -30.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Climate Adaptation Plans. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():21-30.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Climate Adaptation Plans." Land Degradation in India , no. : 21-30.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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This chapter presents an approach for estimating the cooling capacity provided by urban green infrastructures tailored to support urban planning. The method is based on the review of the literature to identify the functions of green infrastructures that are involved in providing cooling, and the components that determine those functions. The information is then combined to provide an overall assessment of the cooling capacity. The approach is applied to 50 different typologies of green infrastructures, which result from different combinations of components in different climatic regions. An illustrative case study in the city of Amsterdam show the applicability of the approach.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Developing Ecosystem Service Models for Urban Planning: A Focus on Micro-Climate Regulation. Land Degradation in India 2019, 31 -42.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Developing Ecosystem Service Models for Urban Planning: A Focus on Micro-Climate Regulation. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():31-42.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Developing Ecosystem Service Models for Urban Planning: A Focus on Micro-Climate Regulation." Land Degradation in India , no. : 31-42.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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This chapter analyzes to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans. The objective is to understand what ecosystem service information is already used, and what is still needed to improve planning decisions. We developed a methodology to review the content of planning documents irrespective of the terminology adopted to refer to ecosystem services, and examined the inclusion of nine urban ecosystem services across three plan components (information base, vision and objectives, and actions). In our sample of 22 urban plans of Italian cities, we found a high number of actions to address urban ecosystem services and a variety of tools for implementation. However, a two-speed integration emerges: a set of ecosystem services (i.e. recreation and some regulating) are widely addressed, while others are hardly considered. Usable methods to assess urban ecosystem services at the right scale and resolution are still needed.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Plans. Land Degradation in India 2019, 7 -20.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Plans. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():7-20.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Plans." Land Degradation in India , no. : 7-20.

Chapter
Published: 30 July 2019 in Land Degradation in India
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Human life on Earth depends on ecosystems. This is the main message conveyed by the concept of ecosystem services (ES), which has gained an ever-increasing attention in the scientific (McDonough et al. 2017) and policy debate (e.g., CBD 2011; European Commission 2006, 2010) of the last two decades. The success of the term ‘ecosystem services’ is arguably due to its encompassing all “the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human wellbeing” (TEEB 2010a), thus providing a comprehensive framework to describe the multiple relationships between humans and nature.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. Introduction. Land Degradation in India 2019, 1 -6.

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Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis, Linda Zardo, Blal Adem Esmail. Introduction. Land Degradation in India. 2019; ():1-6.

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Davide Geneletti; Chiara Cortinovis; Linda Zardo; Blal Adem Esmail. 2019. "Introduction." Land Degradation in India , no. : 1-6.

Research article
Published: 30 November 2018 in Landscape Ecology
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Several case studies investigated the role of ecosystem services in participatory planning processes. However, no systematic study exists that cuts across a large number of empirical cases to identify the implications of using ecosystem services in participatory planning. This study explores the potential of the ecosystem services concept to act as a boundary concept (“new Esperanto”) to facilitate the integration of actors’ perceptions and objectives into planning goals. We analyzed eleven case studies to explore how the ecosystem services concept has been operationalized to support participatory planning processes, and to identify lessons from successful applications. We characterized the case studies according to contextual and methodological criteria. Each case study was assessed through a codified score card method in order to detect success or failure criteria in using the ecosystem services concept in participatory planning. We compared the case study criteria with the results of the balanced score card method. We identified several positive effects of applying the ecosystem services concept in participatory planning, including the facilitation of knowledge sharing and consideration of local experiences, the support towards a shared vision, and the increased awareness among local actors concerning their role as ecosystem services suppliers or beneficiaries. Among the drawbacks, we identified the risk of overemphasizing specific ecosystem goods or services during the process. We conclude by providing some recommendations to enhance future practice related to issues such as communication, use of local knowledge and integration of ecosystem services in existing legal instruments.

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Marcin Spyra; Janina Kleemann; Nuket Ipek Cetin; Cesar Jesús Vázquez Navarrete; Christian Albert; Igone Palacios-Agundez; Ibone Ametzaga; Daniele La Rosa; Daniel Rozas-Vásquez; Blal Adem Esmail; Paolo Picchi; Davide Geneletti; Hannes J. König; Hongmi Koo; Leena Kopperoinen; Christine Fürst. The ecosystem services concept: a new Esperanto to facilitate participatory planning processes? Landscape Ecology 2018, 34, 1715 -1735.

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Marcin Spyra, Janina Kleemann, Nuket Ipek Cetin, Cesar Jesús Vázquez Navarrete, Christian Albert, Igone Palacios-Agundez, Ibone Ametzaga, Daniele La Rosa, Daniel Rozas-Vásquez, Blal Adem Esmail, Paolo Picchi, Davide Geneletti, Hannes J. König, Hongmi Koo, Leena Kopperoinen, Christine Fürst. The ecosystem services concept: a new Esperanto to facilitate participatory planning processes? Landscape Ecology. 2018; 34 (7):1715-1735.

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Marcin Spyra; Janina Kleemann; Nuket Ipek Cetin; Cesar Jesús Vázquez Navarrete; Christian Albert; Igone Palacios-Agundez; Ibone Ametzaga; Daniele La Rosa; Daniel Rozas-Vásquez; Blal Adem Esmail; Paolo Picchi; Davide Geneletti; Hannes J. König; Hongmi Koo; Leena Kopperoinen; Christine Fürst. 2018. "The ecosystem services concept: a new Esperanto to facilitate participatory planning processes?" Landscape Ecology 34, no. 7: 1715-1735.

Journal article
Published: 05 September 2018 in One Ecosystem
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The European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action ESMERALDA aimed at developing guidance and a flexible methodology for Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) to support the EU member states in the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy’s Target 2 Action 5. ESMERALDA’s key tasks included network creation, stakeholder engagement, enhancing ecosystem services mapping and assessment methods across various spatial scales and value domains, work in case studies and support of EU member states in MAES implementation. Thus ESMERALDA aimed at integrating various project outcomes around four major strands: i) Networking, ii) Policy, iii) Research and iv) Application. The objective was to provide guidance for integrated ecosystem service mapping and assessment that can be used for sustainable decision-making in policy, business, society, practice and science at EU, national and regional levels. This article presents the overall ESMERALDA approach of integrating the above-mentioned project components and outcomes and provides an overview of how the enhanced methods were applied and how they can be used to support MAES implementation in the EU member states. Experiences with implementing such a large pan-European Coordination and Support Action in the context of EU policy are discussed and recommendations for future actions are given.

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Benjamin Burkhard; Joachim Maes; Marion Potschin-Young; Fernando Santos-Martín; Davide Geneletti; Pavel Stoev; Leena Kopperoinen; Cristian Adamescu; Blal Adem Esmail; Ildikó Arany; Andy Arnell; Mario Balzan; David N. Barton; Pieter Van Beukering; Sabine Bicking; Paulo Borges; Bilyana Borisova; Leon Braat; Luke M Brander; Svetla Bratanova-Doncheva; Steven Broekx; Claire Brown; Constantin Cazacu; Neville Crossman; Bálint Czúcz; Jan Daněk; Rudolf De Groot; Daniel Depellegrin; Panayotis Dimopoulos; Nora Elvinger; Markus Erhard; Nora Fagerholm; Jana Frélichová; Adrienne Grêt-Regamey; Margarita Grudova; Roy Haines-Young; Ola Inghe; Tamas Kallay; Tamara Kirin; Hermann Klug; Ioannis Kokkoris; Iskra Konovska; Marion Kruse; Iliyana Kuzmova; Manfred Lange; Inge Liekens; Alon Lotan; Damian Lowicki; Sandra Luque; Cristina Marta-Pedroso; Andrzej Mizgajski; Laura Mononen; Sara Mulder; Felix Müller; Stoyan Nedkov; Mariana Nikolova; Hannah Östergård; Lyubomir Penev; Paulo Pereira; Kati Pitkänen; Tobias Plieninger; Sven-Erik Rabe; Steffen Reichel; Philip Roche; Graciela Rusch; Anda Ruskule; Anna Sapundzhieva; Kalev Sepp; Ina Sieber; Mateja Smid Hribar; Simona Stašová; Bastian Steinhoff-Knopp; Małgorzata Stępniewska; Anne Teller; David Vackar; Martine Van Weelden; Kristina Veidemane; Henrik Vejre; Petteri Vihervaara; Arto Viinikka; Miguel Villoslada; Bettina Weibel; Grazia Zulian. Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in the EU - Lessons learned from the ESMERALDA approach of integration. One Ecosystem 2018, 3, e29153 .

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Benjamin Burkhard, Joachim Maes, Marion Potschin-Young, Fernando Santos-Martín, Davide Geneletti, Pavel Stoev, Leena Kopperoinen, Cristian Adamescu, Blal Adem Esmail, Ildikó Arany, Andy Arnell, Mario Balzan, David N. Barton, Pieter Van Beukering, Sabine Bicking, Paulo Borges, Bilyana Borisova, Leon Braat, Luke M Brander, Svetla Bratanova-Doncheva, Steven Broekx, Claire Brown, Constantin Cazacu, Neville Crossman, Bálint Czúcz, Jan Daněk, Rudolf De Groot, Daniel Depellegrin, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Nora Elvinger, Markus Erhard, Nora Fagerholm, Jana Frélichová, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Margarita Grudova, Roy Haines-Young, Ola Inghe, Tamas Kallay, Tamara Kirin, Hermann Klug, Ioannis Kokkoris, Iskra Konovska, Marion Kruse, Iliyana Kuzmova, Manfred Lange, Inge Liekens, Alon Lotan, Damian Lowicki, Sandra Luque, Cristina Marta-Pedroso, Andrzej Mizgajski, Laura Mononen, Sara Mulder, Felix Müller, Stoyan Nedkov, Mariana Nikolova, Hannah Östergård, Lyubomir Penev, Paulo Pereira, Kati Pitkänen, Tobias Plieninger, Sven-Erik Rabe, Steffen Reichel, Philip Roche, Graciela Rusch, Anda Ruskule, Anna Sapundzhieva, Kalev Sepp, Ina Sieber, Mateja Smid Hribar, Simona Stašová, Bastian Steinhoff-Knopp, Małgorzata Stępniewska, Anne Teller, David Vackar, Martine Van Weelden, Kristina Veidemane, Henrik Vejre, Petteri Vihervaara, Arto Viinikka, Miguel Villoslada, Bettina Weibel, Grazia Zulian. Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in the EU - Lessons learned from the ESMERALDA approach of integration. One Ecosystem. 2018; 3 ():e29153.

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Benjamin Burkhard; Joachim Maes; Marion Potschin-Young; Fernando Santos-Martín; Davide Geneletti; Pavel Stoev; Leena Kopperoinen; Cristian Adamescu; Blal Adem Esmail; Ildikó Arany; Andy Arnell; Mario Balzan; David N. Barton; Pieter Van Beukering; Sabine Bicking; Paulo Borges; Bilyana Borisova; Leon Braat; Luke M Brander; Svetla Bratanova-Doncheva; Steven Broekx; Claire Brown; Constantin Cazacu; Neville Crossman; Bálint Czúcz; Jan Daněk; Rudolf De Groot; Daniel Depellegrin; Panayotis Dimopoulos; Nora Elvinger; Markus Erhard; Nora Fagerholm; Jana Frélichová; Adrienne Grêt-Regamey; Margarita Grudova; Roy Haines-Young; Ola Inghe; Tamas Kallay; Tamara Kirin; Hermann Klug; Ioannis Kokkoris; Iskra Konovska; Marion Kruse; Iliyana Kuzmova; Manfred Lange; Inge Liekens; Alon Lotan; Damian Lowicki; Sandra Luque; Cristina Marta-Pedroso; Andrzej Mizgajski; Laura Mononen; Sara Mulder; Felix Müller; Stoyan Nedkov; Mariana Nikolova; Hannah Östergård; Lyubomir Penev; Paulo Pereira; Kati Pitkänen; Tobias Plieninger; Sven-Erik Rabe; Steffen Reichel; Philip Roche; Graciela Rusch; Anda Ruskule; Anna Sapundzhieva; Kalev Sepp; Ina Sieber; Mateja Smid Hribar; Simona Stašová; Bastian Steinhoff-Knopp; Małgorzata Stępniewska; Anne Teller; David Vackar; Martine Van Weelden; Kristina Veidemane; Henrik Vejre; Petteri Vihervaara; Arto Viinikka; Miguel Villoslada; Bettina Weibel; Grazia Zulian. 2018. "Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in the EU - Lessons learned from the ESMERALDA approach of integration." One Ecosystem 3, no. : e29153.

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Published: 10 July 2018 in One Ecosystem
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A key task in the ESMERALDA project dealt with identifying appropriate case studies to test the 'flexible methodology' in its different stages of development. Case studies consist of working examples in which mapping and assessment of ecosystem services were applied to address specific decision-making problems. Testing is understood as an iterative process of co-learning that involves project partners and stakeholders, enabling the refinement of the 'flexible methodology' and the development of guidelines to support its application. Testing is conducted through a series of workshops in different European contexts, each addressing a different set of themes and regions. This paper illustrates the selection of case studies for testing the ESMERALDA 'flexible methodology' in its different stages of development. Particularly, case studies had to be selected in such a way that they are representative of: (i) the variety of existing conditions across the EU, in terms of data availability, spatial scale, levels of implementation of EU 2020 targets and expertise and experience in ES mapping and assessment; (ii) the geographical regions and biomes of the entire EU, including marine areas and the outermost regions; (iii) the variety of cross-EU themes relevant for ecosystem services, such as the Common Agricultural Policy, Green Infrastructure, Natura 2000 network, forestry strategy, water policy, energy, business and industry sectors and health; (iv) the variety of policy and planning processes that can be used to mainstream ecosystem services in real-life decisions, such as spatial and land use planning, water resource management, flooding under the EU climate adaptation action, energy policy, strategic environmental assessment, protected area planning.

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Davide Geneletti; Blal Adem Esmail; Chiara Cortinovis. Identifying representative case studies for ecosystem services mapping and assessment across Europe. One Ecosystem 2018, 3, e25382 .

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Davide Geneletti, Blal Adem Esmail, Chiara Cortinovis. Identifying representative case studies for ecosystem services mapping and assessment across Europe. One Ecosystem. 2018; 3 ():e25382.

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Davide Geneletti; Blal Adem Esmail; Chiara Cortinovis. 2018. "Identifying representative case studies for ecosystem services mapping and assessment across Europe." One Ecosystem 3, no. : e25382.